JURUPA VALLEY: Good news on the marijuana front.

Score two for Jurupa Valley in its ongoing battle to rid the city of medical marijuana dispensaries.

On Jan. 22, Â Jurupa Valley prevailed in a hearing involving one of five dispensaries the city sued last November.

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Attorneys for Inland Medical Co-op in Jurupa Valley lost round one to the city in court Jan. 22.

Attorneys for the Inland Medical Cooperative alleged in their motion to dismiss that the city had no authority to shut the facility down. The motion also raised technical objections to the city's complaint.

City attorney Peter Thorson said in an email t hat at the Jan. 22 hearing, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gloria Trask rejected all of the dispensary's legal objections and gave attorneys 30 days to file an answer to Jurupa Valley's complaint.

In separate email this week, Thorson told me that the landlord of Jackpot Collective on Mission Boulevard had agreed to stop operating a marijuana dispensary, to refuse to rent the location to medical marijuana purveyors and to pay the city's attorney fees.

And Â Healing Â Hands on Limonite Avenue informed attorneys that it is now closed and has moved to a new location. If that proves to be true, it would mean more good news for Jurupa Valley.

No word yet on the other two dispensaries that were served: Nature's Elelments and I.E. Holistic Center, both on Container Circle.

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At one point in the city's short history, officials believed there were nearly two dozen of the facilities operating in Jurupa Valley.

City attorney Peter Thorson, at the city council's direction, sent letters to each, informing operators that they were illegal under the city's municipal code and needed to get out of town

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